Private Toyogasaki, rooftop.
After hearing Sogo Doma's story, Utaha Kasumigaoka's mouth twitched. "..."
Who was he trying to fool? Was logic really that difficult? Never mind whether ordinary people could learn it—even with her talent, where she could dominate Toyogasaki after learning something casually, there was no way she would end up like whoever it was in that story, right?
"Sogo-kun, even if you want me to back down in the face of difficulty, that story just now was a little too..." Isn't that looking down on me too much!?
"Um..." Before Utaha Kasumigaoka could finish, Sogo Doma interrupted, "I did want you to back down in the face of difficulty, but it wasn't because of the story itself. It was because of the information contained within it. Did you gather any? Throughout the entire story, did you notice anything that didn't make sense? And..."
Here it came, the modern-text analysis that Celestial Empire examinees hated most. Fortunately, exams in this country did not have this sort of article analysis. Otherwise, even Sogo Doma would not dare pat his chest and guarantee a perfect score.
Even someone as knowledgeable and experienced as Sogo Doma had to kneel before it, let alone Utaha Kasumigaoka, who had barely encountered this sort of thing.
She looked completely baffled. "I have to gather information just from listening to a story?"
"Of course." Sogo Doma nodded. The answers were in his head anyway, so he could make up whatever he wanted.
"And find the parts that don't make sense?" Seeing that Sogo Doma did not seem to be joking, Utaha Kasumigaoka felt as though her brain was not quite up to the task.
"That's right. Not only do you have to identify the unreasonable parts, you also have to understand why the author wrote it